Workload Management Contracts

Workload Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Workload Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Workload Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 689 743
Rank change year-on-year +102 +54 -103
Contract jobs citing Workload Management 11 30 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.050% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.056% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 40
10th Percentile £372 £521 £260
25th Percentile £404 £550 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.57% +55.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £524 £794 £554
90th Percentile £555 £802 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate - £700 £451
% change year-on-year - +55.38% -12.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.68% - -
75th Percentile £20.56 £39.38 -
90th Percentile £23.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Workload Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Workload Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Workload Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Workload Management in the UK

Workload Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Workload Management.

Daily rate trend for Workload Management in the UK

Workload Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workload Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Workload Management in the UK

Workload Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Workload Management.

Hourly rate trend for Workload Management in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workload Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +116 9 £408 -41.79% 30
Work from Home +119 7 £575 -11.54% 14
UK excluding London +59 7 - - 17
South East +30 6 - - 4
London +95 2 £408 -47.42% 18
North of England +30 1 - - 6
North East - 1 - -

Workload Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Basecamp
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) BIG-IP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
2 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (54.55%) Police
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Business Process Trainer
1 6 (54.55%) IT Trainer
1 6 (54.55%) Trainer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) ICT Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Network Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Information Security
2 6 (54.55%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Data Privacy
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Network Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (9.09%) Business Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Go
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) PHP
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCNP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CCNA
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) AlgoSec
1 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) F5
1 1 (9.09%) Infoblox